november / 10

10th November, 1960 : After a night of uncertainty John Fitzgerald Kennedy has emerged as the new President of the United States by a narrow margin. He obtained only 120,000 more votes than his Republican opponent, Vice-President Nixon. At 43 JFK is the youngest to win the Presidency. [Theodore Roosevelt?]He is also the first Roman Catholic. His father is a self-made millionaire, who was a war-time ambassador in London. Kennedy was raised with Boston elite, going to Princeton and Harvard. He is expected to bring a cadre of Eastern intellectuals into Government, replacing the businessmen favoured by President Eisenhower.

You Tube

Luke 10.23,24: "Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see: For I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them..."
*
Koran, 59,2: "Therefore, take heed, you who have eyes."
Aren't ye glad ye got to the bottom of the page?